Harm reduction international points out that prohibitionist and punitive approaches to drugs fail to achieve any reduction in drug use and trafficking, and are a clear violation of fundamental human rights under international law

This paper provides recommendations for overcoming challenges in light of current policies and practices in Thailand so that the drug treatment system can result in improved health and human rights outcomes for people who use drugs and people dependant on drugs.

Responding to paediatric HIV has been high on every national political agenda for the last decade, with encouraging results in terms of declining new infections among children by 70% between 2000 and 2015. Yet, adolescents aged 10 to 19 years old continue to pay a high toll to HIV in terms of new…

• Opioid use disorder is often a chronic, relapsing condition associated with increased morbidity and death; however, with appropriate treatment and follow-up, individuals can reach sustained long-term remission.

Maziyar Ghiabi, guest editor of the special issue explains the 3 main purposes of this issue: complementarity, questions of methods and discipline, and finally to challenge the established assumptions about the place of drugs in the social sciences.